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Re: Averages

• bigdaddie1 2,694 Posts

  Fri, Jul 8 2011 1:11 PM

  How are averages computed?

  I have 1 round of 63 in my career, and a 9 hole round of 29, but today with a -3 at CCC back nine, I was moved to Tour Master with a 63 average.

  Not complaining here, I love the fact I will play faster greens. But still, how dose one round of 63, and and overall average of 66 for over 900 ranked rounds compute to a 63 average with a  -3 round?

   An analysis of my score history was done, and my top 40 rounds average is 64.95 made up as follows:

  1 x 58

  3 x 62

  1 x63

  11 x 64

  2 x 65

  18 x 66

  3 x 67

  1 x 68

  Obviously  the calculations may be a bit flawed, but we used the last 158 games in my history, so I think we have adequate history.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Jul 8 2011 1:19 PM

  Your average isn't really your average, it's more of a compilation of your best rounds. After you play a certain number of rounds in a tier your average stops going up regardless of what you shoot. It only moves with rounds at or below your current average and then it only moves by hundredths. Pretty soon you're low enough and get bumped up a tier. Then it starts all over again.

  Your average will appear to be legitimate in your new tier as it will be based on your first round as a TM and fluctuate until you get those certain number of rounds in (no idea how many.) Then it will start only going down until you get to Legend.

• bigdaddie1 2,694 Posts

  Fri, Jul 8 2011 1:52 PM

  YJ

  Good answer, but how can it go down if you do not shot below the average of your rounds?

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Jul 8 2011 2:00 PM

  When it was only moving down for me at the end of the TM tier it would move .02 for shooting my average.  Not the average of rounds, just the current average. For instance, shooting a 31 was basically a 62. If my average was at 62 it would drop that .02. If my average was 61.99 it would stay there. You have to watch the last number in your average to see it happen.

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Sat, Jul 9 2011 8:29 AM

  Say the game only bases your average on your top 20 scores.  For math purposes, say those are 10 62s and 10 65s.  That would make you average 63.5.  If you shoot a 64, which is above your average, that 64 will replace one of the 65s that are comprising your average.  Thus, your average will go DOWN despite shooting above it.

  Does that make it any clearer?

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Jul 9 2011 8:36 AM

  Perfect answer, JLB. In his OP that 68 disappears.

• genorb 1,255 Posts

  Sat, Jul 9 2011 9:25 AM

  bigdaddie1:

  An analysis of my score history was done, and my top 40 rounds 

  ...

  Obviously  the calculations may be a bit flawed, but we used the last 158 games in my history

  Indeed, you have to take your best 40 rounds as Master to compute your average (9 holes are transformed into 18 holes rounds by simply multiplying the score by 2, as you did). But you looked into your last 158 rounds (the only ones available in your score history) but you played already 960 rounds. Not all those 960 rounds were played as master but I guess you played much more then 158 rounds as master. So if you don't have written somewhere your scores, you cannot double check the WGT computations. But no worry this is correct. I double check my average computation since I am tour pro (just to understand how it works), and everyting is always correct (once you figured out the rules used, in particular that only X best games are taken into account).

  Regards